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Owwwww my head

By David Futrelle

A quick little update post.

First off, GIANT THANKS to everyone who’s donated during this fund drive! I can’t do this blog without you, and I appreciate everything you all do to help, whether your donations are large or small or if you contribute to the blog in some other way.

If you can’t donated yet, please do! Pledges are running behind what I need to cover costs, and every little (or big) bit helps!

I’m going to extend the pledge drive for at least a few more days, and will have another update soon. THANKS!

Second, sorry that posts have been light over the past couple of days!

As some of you know, I have problems with chronic migraines that can interfere rather severely with my productivity. Right now I’m in a difficult spot, trying (on the advice of a neurologist) to break a vicious cycle of rebound headaches by more or less going cold turkey on my regular migraine meds and all other painkillers, which means I basically have to deal with my headaches raw for now in hopes of fewer headaches in the future. Hopefully this process won’t take more than  a few more days, but until it’s over posts will be light.

I’ve also fallen behind on emails, but please keep on sending tips!

Thanks for understanding. Thanks for everything!

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kiki
kiki
7 years ago

That zig zag sparkly aura thing is caused by a chemical reaction traveling across the surface of your brain and affecting the bits that deal with vision. That’s why they tend to last about 45 minutes.

45 minutes?! I get the ‘blob’ kind of aura rather than the ‘zig-zag’ kind, and it only ever lasts a few seconds. And not to alarm you or anything, but I’ve read that if you get aura for more than an hour, you might be having a migrainous infarction, which is basically a stroke…

Ellesar
Ellesar
7 years ago

Apparently incels want to clone young women and replace their brains with dog brains, because they’re more loving that women.

And apparently they believe that that would advance humankind!

These guys are just making shit up to outrage as much as possible – my brain cannot accept sincerity on these vile schemes.

opposablethumbs
opposablethumbs
7 years ago

All the hemicranial sympathies :-(((((

The only thing I’ve ever heard is the CCCA (cheese-chocolate-citrus-alcohol) litany, as in don’t have any, which is cruel enough in itself even without the horrible pain.

bluecat
bluecat
7 years ago

Feel better soon David!

Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
7 years ago

Fucking hell, these incels. They’re just in a continual race to the bottom.

This…

… and, of course, “the bottom” always has a trap door….

@ Nequam;

from the article…

Laura Bates, campaigner and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, condemned the Frigid Farrah product in the New York Times writing: “rape is not an act of sexual passion. It is a violent crime.”

Moggie
Moggie
7 years ago

Cat purr generator: in addition to the one that PaganReader linked to, there’s also mynoise.net, which has numerous different noise generators. Since moving recently to a noisy open plan office, I particularly like the rain noises, which help me focus and block out the office noise. It’s also said to be helpful to tinnitus sufferers.

Nanny Oggs Bosom
Nanny Oggs Bosom
7 years ago

Get well soon David, I hope the treatment works. My sister had to do something similar with her migraine medication, it worked but the first month or so was hell.

Miss Edgy Nation
Miss Edgy Nation
7 years ago

Be better, David. I know how shatteringly awful migraines are. My sympathy.

Latte Cat
Latte Cat
7 years ago

Wish I could donate! Once I get my savings account set up I definitely will be. The joys of being 15!

Lysistrata
Lysistrata
7 years ago

I send my wishes for a good recovery too, David.

Diego Duarte
Diego Duarte
7 years ago

@Personalpest

So after a good night’s sleep I finally decided to take on the post, and I must say it is deeply disturbing. This guy is beyond disgusting by an order of magnitude. Saying he prefers women to go “ruff ruff” and lick his face rather than have them be feminist. And I think the last sentence just reflects the overall attitude incels have towards women:

When I was away I would just lock it in a kennel or perhaps under a bunker, some type of safe haven.”

This is some serial-killer level creepy ass shit. This guy needs to be put away for life before he harms anybody.

@Tov01

I think someone mentioned this before but at this point rock bottom is the new ceiling.

Still Fiqah
Still Fiqah
7 years ago

David’s self-care >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything the assholes David faithfully chronicles can and will ever do, ever.

Also dropping this here for any “Game of Thrones”/Brienne-N-Tormund 5-EVA fans:

http://store.hbo.com/game-of-thrones-dorbz-tormund-brienne-two-pack-comic-con-exclusive/detail.php?p=1400042&v=comic-con-exclusives

Simon Hales
7 years ago

For Alan (who has mentioned this subject many times on WHTM) and other UK people:

I am on the Radical Tea Towel Company’s mailing list and have just got an email advertising a “Suffragjitsu Experience Day”, all about the Suffragette’s use of martial arts 🙂

https://www.radicalteatowel.co.uk/more/experiences/suffrajitsu-experience-day-16-09-2017?utm_source=Radical+Tea+Towel+Customers&utm_campaign=a7f4c3f87e-Suffrajitsu-July-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4ee5860bc-a7f4c3f87e-293907921

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
7 years ago

@ Simon

mentioned this subject many times

Heh, you probably missed out a couple of ‘many’s. 🙂

But this is fantastic. I’m definitely going to try to get to this. Thank you!

Dr Emelyne Godfrey

I stuck a vid up of a lecture she did some time back, so it’ll be cool to see her ‘live’ as it were.

Gussie Jives
Gussie Jives
7 years ago

@Diego Duarte

Wow. The incel board is going full Bene Tleilax with that post. Sheesh….

@Katz

And take away all copies of the 1996 movie too. Just in general. But keep that Lost Soul documentary about how bungled the production was, because that was actually a pretty interesting exercise in how quickly one geek’s passion project can be turned upside down by personality clashes, executive meddling and poor directorial leadership.

Fairuza Balk’s escape attempt story was particularly amusing.

Dormousing_it
Dormousing_it
7 years ago

David, as a day has passed since you left this post, I hope you’re finally feeling better.

I wonder if hydrotherapy might help with the pain – meaning, stick your feet into very warm water, up to your ankles. Supposedly, this draws the blood away from your head, and core. It works with period pain.

I realize it’s a pseudoscience, but maybe aromatherapy also might help a little. It probably works, if it works at all, via distraction.

Anyway, I don’t know very much about migraines, only that they can be painful to the point of nausea.

Katz
7 years ago

And take away all copies of the 1996 movie too. Just in general. But keep that Lost Soul documentary about how bungled the production was, because that was actually a pretty interesting exercise in how quickly one geek’s passion project can be turned upside down by personality clashes, executive meddling and poor directorial leadership.

Fairuza Balk’s escape attempt story was particularly amusing.

Yes, it should be destroyed for the good of all. Although I do have a certain fondness for a movie that committed so completely to practical effects and prostheses when the winds were so clearly blowing the other direction.

Redsilkphoenix: Jetpack Vixen, Agent of the FemiNest Collective; Keeper of a Hell Toupee, and all-around Intergalactic Meanie
Redsilkphoenix: Jetpack Vixen, Agent of the FemiNest Collective; Keeper of a Hell Toupee, and all-around Intergalactic Meanie
7 years ago

Based on that screencap (refuse to go to that Reddit to read the responses), I’m guessing that particular incel has never lived with a dog. At all. In addition to the “desirable” trait of greeting their human(s) with great joy whenever said human(s) have left the house for more than five minutes, dogs also have some combination of the following traits, to different degrees:

1. Barking whenever the proverbial wind blows the proverbial leaf across the lawn,

2. SQUIRRELS!!!!! *zoooooom!!!!!*,

3. A distinct tendency to bring…things…home with them from their walks.

(Example: apparent inner dialogue from a dog I knew who did this. “For your dining pleasure – a backside of red squirrel, aged to perfection under a layer of decomposing autumn leaves, and kissed by a light dusting of snow. Take some home with you today.”

Human’s response when discovered: “AAAACK!!!!! WHERE did you find that; and WHY are you eating it under the dining room table!?!?!” )

4. Considering the contents of a catpot as a…delicacy. D:

And there’s lots of other…interesting dog traits too I don’t have time to list. But still, like I said above, putting a dog’s brain into a girl’s body really might not net this incel the perfect woman he thinks he’s entitled to.

Just my 2¢.

JS
JS
7 years ago

I’ve got a little time… Other dog characteristics they forgot

Pseudo-random vomiting, sometimes including “because dog drank too much water too fast”. (Some breeds have poor anatomy between mouth and stomach)

Not knowing what that hard white thing in the bathroom next to the fun paper roll is for.

Rolling in leaves in the yard, making sure not to shake them off before coming into the house.

Not discriminating well between “food” and “clothing”.

MissEB47 (Resident Rainbow Lorikeet and Beak Typist)
MissEB47 (Resident Rainbow Lorikeet and Beak Typist)
7 years ago

No need to apologise, David. Get better soon!

Mistyful
Mistyful
7 years ago

More dog characteristics:

Not being toilet trained.

Not knowing how to clean up their own (or anyone else’s) messes.

Not knowing how to prepare food, and actually requiring that their human prepares food for them.

Shameless farting.

No real grooming habits, so no makeup or nice hair or clothes unless the guy takes the time to do it himself. And he’d have to clean up during that time of the month, too.

And I hope you feel better soon, David. Sending good vibes and all that.

occasional reader
occasional reader
7 years ago

I wish you a quick recovery, David ! Migraine are pain in the ass, which is strange if you do not have a butthead. Have you tried relaxation and controled breathing ?

Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary
7 years ago

Yikes, those comments on the Indy sex doll article are horrifying. There is no way you can compare a sex doll, made to look like a woman, with a dildo, zucchini or a carrot, which is not an object made to look like an objectified human being. It’s even worse they think that having sex dolls of children or even babies is ok as long as they are objects snd not real kids so no crime has been committed. If they want to use a fleshlight or a warm can of baked beans or a hole in a melon, then fine, they are not treating women or children as objects.

And I have personal reasons why I hate the term ‘frigid”. My father was an angry and violent man, and my mum was afraid of sex with him. He used to shame her to his mates by calling her this, and saying she was like fucking a sack of spuds. He even told the children that. He didn’t think she had fulfilled her wifely duty because he owned property, and married her for sex and housework. When I realised I wasn’t interested in sex, I was worried I’d get run down in public for being frigid, but I now identify as non binary / trans and asexual.

The talk of migraines made me think of this song by my favourite trans gender singer. Ok, it’s about epilepsy, but the lyrics describe the kind of scotomas people see when they get migrains. The video is so cool and sexy tho.

epitome of incomprehensibility

David, hope you feel better soon!

kupo
kupo
7 years ago

More dog behavior:

Shaking water all over you anytime they get wet.

Vomiting, eating the vomit, and vomiting again.

Sticking their noses in the crotches of every visiter.

Sticking their noses in the asses of every dog they meet.

Humping people’s legs.

Bathing in putrid swamp water at every opportunity.

Howling whenever an emergency vehicle goes by.

Pooping on the neighbor’s lawn.

Marking territory with urine.

Whining if you eat in front of them. Ever.